In “Vote for Your Favorite Mac Word Processor” (10 July 2017), we asked you to rate the Mac word processors that you’ve used. Over 800 TidBITS readers responded to our survey of 21 apps, submitting ...

Word processing apps are as old as the personal computer, but what counts as a “word processor” turns out to be almost as contentious as determining the “best” word processor. In this TidBITS reader ...

AssistiveWare (http://www.assistiveware.com) has released Wrise 1.0, its latest Mac OS X application that will be introduced at this week’s ATIA conference in ...

The OS X text-editor market is burgeoning, especially with the advent of the Mac App Store and the capability to store documents on iCloud (and otherwise in the cloud). These writing apps range from ...

Blue Nomad has announced the release of a fully Mac OS-friendly version of WordSmith, its word processing app for Palm OS-based PDAs. The new version incorporates a conduit that enables Mac users to ...

On your Mac, there's TextEdit (free) which is so simple and basic that you'd think you've stepped back to computers of the 1980s. However, it's so simple and basic, it so very much does not add ...

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The default format for documents that you create for your business using the Mac's native word processor application TextEdit is RTF, or Rich Text Format. An RTF document includes formatting for ...

I recently wrote about Ilys, a Web app focused on helping writers write rather than edit. It was all about creative flow over granular perfectionism. First Draft is a Mac app with a similar goal but a ...